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Well, you would think that Windows 7's new MediaCenter would be up to the task of recording your TV to a network share/drive. Too bad, it looks like it's just not possible.
I have a windows 2008 R2 server, and a Windows 7 machine with a TV card. Since my server has 2TB of storage, it would be nice to record directly to it's networked drive. (I mounted it as Z:).
I tried the following:
- Selecting it in Media Center Itself: Not working. Not available.
- Editing the registry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Media Center\Service\Recording
, settingRecordPath
toZ:\TV
. Not working. - Editing the registry: setting
RecordPath
to\\server\TV
. Not working. - Creating a Symlink (
mklink \D
) toZ:\TV
and\\server\TV
and setting that in the registry asRecordPath
.
Currently I am out of options. I could ofcourse Install Windows7 on my server, but I have no license for that, and my windows 2008 r2 is free from dreamspark.
Are there people that are succesfully recording to a networked drive/storage?
edit
I also need to mention that I need to be able to acces the stored files from other PC's, like my laptop. So iSCSI is great for recording, but it looks like you can't access iSCSI devices from multiple PC's.
Looks like sharing a iSCSI device is out of the question, so: Are there workarounds to get this thing recording to my network drive?
no, the iSCSI device acts like a local disk to the win-7 system that uses it. which means if you want to share it over the network, share it from the win-7 system like any other drive, not from the win2k8 server. – quack quixote – 2010-02-20T17:01:20.743
multiple computers writing to the same NTFS filesystem is a good way to hose your data. if you must enable concurrent access, make sure only one computer has write access to the drive. see https://forums.openfiler.com/viewtopic.php?id=838
– quack quixote – 2010-02-20T17:38:50.420@Peterdk: as my first comment says, use iSCSI to let the win-7 system record. but then to share that drive to other PCs you need to share it from the win-7 system as a regular network share. the other PCs don't need iSCSI for the access; they'll just use windows networking and browse to the win-7 computer. – quack quixote – 2010-02-20T18:15:29.520
@quack: Problem is, mij win 7 system is not always on, and I therefor need to be able to access it from my server. – Peterdk – 2010-02-21T14:11:03.447
ahhh. that makes sense. more details == good. :) – quack quixote – 2010-02-21T21:00:11.973
This looked interesting. http://exdeus.home.comcast.net/~exdeus/WMCRecordingStoragePooler/
– TJR – 2010-11-13T20:48:53.483